Reviews for The Character Factor: How We Judge America's Presidents

The average rating for The Character Factor: How We Judge America's Presidents based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-09-23 00:00:00 Akira Guo Innes and Booher's concept of collaborative rationality passes a "sniff test" through the combination of both effectively describing the hard-to-pin-down quality of processes that work, and appropriately diagnosing the issues of those processes that seem to have all the right pieces but fail in the end. It has become my go-to book when I need to start down the path of topics like local knowledge, role playing and bricolage, networked power, and the eloquent DIAD model. There are a couple of statements that prompt the raising of an eyebrow or two ' while pulling together a lot of interrelated good ideas, it's not perfect, but it's the best start I've seen to describing a realistic, 21st century practice incorporating what we know about systems in general.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-06-15 00:00:00 Gilles Levesque If you do empirical work in the social sciences (or any field with similar identification problems, e.g. epidemiology, then you should read this.